Architecture
Building design, aesthetics, and engineering.
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Architecture
Naucalpan is home to Casa Orgánica, an organic architectural masterpiece by the renowned Mexican architect Javier Senosiain. The space was originally designed by Javier for himself and his family in 1984, but after living in the home for 25 years, it has since opened to the public.
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Discover the Secret Garden House | A Modern Eco Home Hidden Behind a 300-year-old Wall
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I find an interesting parallel here to the ideas James Scott proposes in Seeing Like a State (which we covered back in RE #4): a top-down, central planning-style of design can't effectively predict the diversity of user needs. It turns out, contra to the "expert architect", that the users know best what they need from their space. And often even... See more
Coleman McCormick • MIT's Building 20: a Masterpiece of Utility
'Architects have to stop thinking in terms of buildings only. Built and physical architecture, freed from the technological limitations of the past, will more intensely work with spatial qualities as well as the psychological ones. The process of erection will get a new meaning, spaces will have more consciously have haptic, optic and acoustic... See more
Rion Willard • "Everything is Architecture" - Hans Hollein
The flat layout of the building made for constant chance encounters in the hallways. Vertical buildings create rigid boundaries, since floors and stairs are harder barriers, so the horizontal footprint caused people to run into dozens of others throughout a typical day. From the air, it looked like an oblique letter E (with a little extra E), and... See more